Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, troisième année (CD)

Unsettling meditations on the passing of life, Wagner and western tonality, the music of Liszt’s old age is like nothing else of its time. Cédric Tiberghien proves wholly attuned to its unconventional demands in a programme concluding with the third and last of the Années de pèlerinage.

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Reviews:

"Tiberghien avoids all temptation to overlay these pieces with gratuitous flamboyance, concentrating instead on the finesse and subtle interiority they demand…Generously filled and beautifully recorded, this disc offers a fine entry point for anyone either dipping into late Liszt for the first time or giving it another try."

4 Stars

"His selection is typically thoughtful...Each is a scaled-down tone poem, which poses its own set of technical challenges. But Tiberghien never flaunts his total command of those challenges and with an exemplary range of touch and keyboard colour, concentrates instead on these pieces purely as musical statements…[He] presents all of them as perfectly conceived miniatures that often pose more questions than they answer."